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Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Part I. Need for a Transition to Knowledge-Based Economy; Figure 1.1 GDP per Capita Growth in the Republic of Korea and Mexico, 1960-2002; Figure 1.2 Four Projections of Mexico's Real GDP per Capita, 2001-2020; Box 1.1 Health Care Serv...

Figure 1.6 Patents of U.S. and Foreign Origin Granted by the U.S. Patent Office, 1981-2001 Table 1.1 World Trade as a Percentage of Global GDP, by Income Level of Country, 1970 and 2001; Table 1.2 Value Added of Knowledge-Based Industries, OECD Countries; Table 1.3 Gross Domestic Expenditures on R&D...

Table 1.6 Payments and Receipts of Royalties and License Fees, Selected Regions and Countries, 2001 Table 1.7 From First-Generation NAFTA to a Knowledge-Driven, Second-Generation NAFTA; Figure 2.1 A Global View of the Knowledge Economy Index; Figure 2.2 GDP per Capita and Knowledge Economy Index, 20...

Figure 3.3 Learning Capabilities by Type of Firm Table 3.1 Instruments to Support Innovation by Type of Firm; Box 3.1 Discretionary Differences among Firms: The Automotive Industry; Figure 3.4 Value Added per Firm in Mexico's Motor Vehicles and Equipment Sector; Figure 3.5 Finance and Execution of R...

Table 3.3 Exceptions and Promising Cases of Innovation at Different Levels Table 3.4 Federal R&D Expenditures in Mexico by Sector and Subsector, 2001; Box 3.3 Innovation through Interorganizational Networks; Figure 3.7 Organizations Involved in Innovation; Table 3.5 Number of Federal Enterprise Supp...

Figure 3.9 Proyecto Innovar as a Possible Hub of U.S.-Mexico Innovation Networks